Badilla: Catholics Are Not Obligated to Agree with Francis' Scandals

Since his formation as a Jesuit in Chile in 1963, Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio "has always been associated with his erratic, contradictory and even discombobulated behaviour", writes Vatican journalist Luis Badilla in a commentary.
In this context, a phrase about Francis' behaviour printed in numerous books is memorable: "Bergoglio puts the blinker to the left, but then turns right, or vice versa".
Badilla notes, however, that a driver who sends ambiguous and incoherent messages to other road users causes "great disorientation".
He mentions Francis' recent "surprise" when he stopped at the luxurious apartment of the unrepentant Italian back-street abortionist Emma Bonino.
For Badilla, it is still not clear what Francis meant by turning a simple private pastoral gesture "into a studied little set-up for the cameras".
Francis, "who says he is as 'naive' as he is 'cunning', has chosen the ambiguous path of saying but not saying, almost as if he wanted to provoke uproar and turmoil".
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